do-gooder
Example Sentences
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The political staffers, the journalists, and the do-gooder nonprofit types all went back home, and back to work.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
The critics say the gang leader’s metamorphosis defies reality, and that the kindly, do-gooder persona of Emilia Pérez mocks the victims who suffered during her former, malevolent reign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
One commentator said now that the "do-gooder" pandoro with pink icing sugar had been exposed as junk, Italians were wondering where that left "the princess of influencers as well as queen of social media".
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023
The descriptions of Bankman-Fried by the prosecution's three star witnesses contradict the 31-year-old former billionaire's pre-arrest reputation as a nerdy do-gooder who wanted to be a responsible actor in the rough-and-tumble crypto space.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023
And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
